Moving from One to Two Starting a Family Your Own Little Universe Interacting with the Big World Home as a Safe Harbor Keeping the Magic Alive Relationships Are the Center Fixing It When It Breaks As Your Family Grows Up Why Are You Doing This?

Part Six / Keeping the Magic Alive

Chapter 16    Special Events
Chapter 17    Appreciation Circles

My friend May, did a little informal survey in a nursing home where she was working. She asked all of the old people there—some very wealthy, some of modest means—what they had found most important in their lives. Every one of them, without exception and without hesitation, said, “Family and friends.” Special events give us time to pause in our busy lives and reconnect with the stuff that matters.